Insight2OracleAndrew DeeleyOracle Practice Manager
A Perfect Match: A True End User Interface to your eBS Data
Insight2OracleReal Time Inquiry & Reporting for Oracle eBS
• Founded in the early 1990s• Began as a development services
company• Became a product company in
2000 due to the popularity of thead-hoc inquiry tool for JD Edwards
• In July 2009, The Inquiry Suiteproduct was renamed to Insight and The GL Company was renamed to InsightSoftware.com
• Over 350 Insight customers & 30,000 users worldwide• Offices in Europe, Australia and United States
Company OverviewInsightSoftware.com
• Insight® is a real time productivity tool designed to optimize your JD Edwards system for improved business performance.
• Operations such as real-time reporting, data reconciliation, integrity management and entire process optimization are achieved quickly and easily with this powerful, end user tool.
Product OverviewInsight2Oracle
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Oracle Native Report Limitations
• Time consuming to build
• Difficult to maintain – typically need the IT department
• Limited visibility of report definitions
• Static solution - limited Drill Down
• No statistics on who’s using the reports
• Little ad-hoc capability
• Basic formatting
• Users still require data dumps to augment information gaps
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Why Not BI?
• Lengthy and costly implementation
• Costly ongoing IT and developer resources required
• Not Real Time – Lengthy update process (many hours)
• Data & Views can become out of sync with the ERP –integrity issues
• Report edits or creation require developer resources
• Users typically require data exports to augment information gaps
• Auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley issues
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Why Not Spreadsheets?
• 95% of spreadsheets contain at least 1 error (KPMG white paper)
• Results can be manually adjusted - no audit trail on what’s changed
• Can easily be proliferated without security both internally & externally
• Many local copies are created, which is the correct version?
• Difficult to manage if the person who wrote them leaves
• No Control: Who publishes what/when? Multiple versions of the truth!
• Plug-in solutions require ongoing IT involvement to define table mappings and joins.
• Auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley issues
• Import existing FSG Row Sets & Hierarchies
• Edit using drag & drop and mouse clicks
• Build new Row Sets in minutes
• View entire row set definition as a visual tree
• Easily define Column & Content sets using filter selections
• Apply high quality formatting
• Inbuilt drill down to GL and subledgers at any level
• One click publishing & Excel export
Streamline Financial Report Production with Insight
Financials
• GL• AP• AR• FA
Projects
• Billing• Costing
Supply Chain
• Purchasing• Inventory
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Modules Insight®Insight2Oracle
• Installs in less than 1 hour • Designed for end users • Intuitive and easy to learn • Online, real time information • Works directly with the ERP system • Exceptional performance • Integrates with the Oracle security • No additional IT infrastructure • Pre-packaged templates• Immediate return on investment
Top 10 Reasons Why Customers Love Insight®Insight2Oracle
• Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Mountain View, California
• SolFocus is a leading developer and manufacturer of Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems for powerplant developers, municipalities, industrial sites and utilities
• Developer and manufacturer of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV systems) utilizing high efficiency PV cells and advanced optics to provide higher energy yield and lower cost
• Oracle Release 12 and implemented General Ledger and Accounts Payable
Company OverviewSolFocus
“If I didn’t have Insight, it would be like going back to the Stone
Age.”
This is going to be “Classic”SolFocus
• Faster Reporting• Less complexity• User friendly• Real Time• Minimal IT Support• No Data Warehouse• Drill Downs• Minimal Training• No Consulting
RequirementsSolFocus
• Users can run and modify inquiries and reports quickly and efficiently without help from IT
• As a read-only application, Insight does not affect data in SolFocus’ Oracle R12 system
• Data is provided in an immediately usable, flexible format
• Real-time data provided by Insight helps the SolFocus management team base decisions on the current state of the business
BenefitsSolFocus
• The full drill down to transactions and AP and AR subledgers helps answer questions rapidly and provides in-depth insight to management teams
• The familiar format of Insight makes training fast and easy, getting users up to speed in as little as half a day
• No additional IT personnel are required to support Insight, an important issue in a rapidly growing company
BenefitsSolFocus
• Insight for Oracle EBS from InsightSoftware.com enables users to run and modify inquiries and reports quickly and efficiently without help from IT.
• Real-time data provided by Insight helps the SolFocusmanagement team base decisions on the current state of the business.
• Data is provided in an immediately usable, flexible format and because Insight is read-only, there is no impact on the data in SolFocus’ Oracle R12 system.
• The familiar format of Insight makes training fast and easy and no additional IT personnel are required to support Insight, an important issue in a rapidly growing
The BOTTOM LINESolFocus
NORTH AMERICAMain Office: 303 872 6959 • East Coast: 646 673 8644 • West Coast: 714 371 4077 • South: 281 328 3222
WORLDWIDEEurope: +44 (0)1494 582 039 • Australasia: +61 (0)2 8216 0810